Improvement in combined wheelbarrow and cultivator



H. SBIMPERT, of Pinckneyville, in the county of Perry,

a wheelbarrow to serve as a support for the box or body tion.

ports in rear of wheel A, when the box is adjustedon uit Mae/

LEWIS TBEFFTZ ANDGEORGE H. SHIMPERT, OF PlNCKNEYVILLE.

. ILLINOIS.

Letters Patent No. 85,709, dated Janna/ry 5, 1869.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To `all whom it fina/y concern:

Be it known that we, Lnwrs TREFFTZ .and GEORGE and State of Illinois, have invented a Combined Wheelba'rrow and Oultivator;V and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had `to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in whiche- Fignre 1 is an elevation of one side of the combined wheelbarrow and cultivator, arranged as a wheelbarrow.

Figure 2 is a bottom view of g. l.

Figure 3 is a longitudinal vertical section, showing the parts arranged andadapted to operate asa cultivator.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The object of this invention is to adapt the frame of ofthe same, and also as a cultivator-frame, when said box is removed from it.

. The nature of our invention consists j in a wheel-l barrow, which is constructed with a removable box or body, and also with a frame which is adapted for having fastened to it the standards of shovels, rakes, or other implements for workin g the soil, and which can be adjusted in proper manner for allowing ,implements to be managed with facility, as will be Vhereinafter explained.

To enable others skilled in the art tounderstand our invention, we will describe its construction and opera- In the accompanying drawings- A represents the box or body of a wheelbarrnw, which box may be constructed in any suitable manner, and of any required capacity.

The box shown in the drawings has daring sides and end secured to a bottom board, to the lower side of which catch-plates, g' g, are secured, which serve, in conjunction with notches b made in 4the legs B, as means for securing the box to its frame. I

The legs vB B are both rigidly secured to the box A, so as to be removable therewith, and to serve as supits frame for use as a wheelbarrow.

The frame, which is adapted for the box A, consists vof two parallel beams, D D, which are mounted at their front ends upon a wheel, lll, and two arms or handles, vwhich are' pivoted at their front ends to said beams, and again attached to them at their rear ends by means of a slotted bar and rocking connections.

The two parallel beams D D are secured together, so as to leave a narrow space between them, by means of cross-pieces, c c, and to their forward ends the wheel E is applied. v j

Between the rear ends of the beams D D, and suitably pivoted to them, -is a rocking bar, J, to the midl dle of the length of which aslotte'd rod, F, is'attached by means of a nut and screw, d, as shown vin fig. 3.

' This slotted rod F is secured to a'rocking bar, G,

which has its end-bearings in the two arms O C, and

which is so attached to these arms as to serve as a lateral brace therefor. l

The nut which is on the bolt d, is provided witha handle, so that it can be readily loosened ortightened without the use of a wrench.

It will be seen that the arms or handles O'Care pivoted at their 'ont ends to the sides of the two beams, by means oia slotted rod, F, and rocking connections, so constructed that, by simply loosening the `nut on bolt d, the said arms or handles can be adjusted at any desired angle, with respect to beams D D, which is found most convenient in using the machine vas a cultivator.

By tightening the said nut, the rod F can be secured rigidly in such 'desired position, and will serve as a handle-standard, as shown in iig. 3.

By again loosening the nut on bolt d, and adjusting the handles C so that their upper edges will lie in the plane of the upper edges of beams D D, and then tightening the said nut, I have a frame which is adapted for receiving upon it the body or box of the wheel barrow, as shown in figs. 1 and 2.

By means of the swivel-hook a, which is applied to the bottom'edge of the rear cross-piece c, and whichpasses through the slot through rod F, when this rod is adjusted as shown in igs. 1 and 2, this rod F willl be held firmly in place, and keep arms or handles G in place.

On the inner sides of th'e'arms or handles O O, oblong slots', i, are made, which will receive the tongues on catch-plates g g, and allow these plates to hold the box A down rmly in place upon its bed or frame; and, as a further security against the casual attachment of the said box, notches, l, are made in the legs B, just below the bottom ofthe box, which will receive the arms or handles C, when this box is applied thereto by sliding it forward thereupon.

Through each one of the cross-pieces c, at the middle of its length, a bolt, h, is passed loosely, having a ,T-shaped head upon its front end, and a nut, j, upon its rear end.

These devices are designed to serve as means for securing slotted standards, P N, of shovels and rakes to the said pieces c c, when theparts are adjusted as shown in iig. 3, to be used for tilling the soil.

The drawings, Figures 3, 4, and 5, represent two diii'erent implements applied to the frame, and, in practice, a varietyof implements may be employed, in connection with the wheelbarrow, for the diiierent operations in tilling the soil and cultivating crops.

Believing ourselves to be the first and original in venters of a combined wheelbarrow and cultivaton l. A .combined cultivator-ame and wheelbarrowj,

constructed substantially as described.

2. The beams D D, the pivoted handles C C, the wheel E, and the adj ust-able handle-standard F, combined and adapted to serve the purposes described.

3. The T-head bolts h and clamp-nuts j, or their equivalents, applied to a. frame which isadapted to serve the purposes substantially as described.

LEWIS TREFFTZ. G. H. SHIMPERT.

Witnesses:

D. B. VAN SYCKEL, J. D. HAMILTON. 

